用大模型统一处理故障恢复与过程控制,实现更智能的工业自动化。
Autonomous Control Leveraging LLMs: An Agentic Framework for Next-Generation Industrial Automation
- 构建基于有限状态机的代理框架,让大模型规划故障恢复路径并验证执行。
- 在180个随机生成的状态机中,GPT-4o实现100%有效路径成功,五次重提示内完成。
- 适用于化工等复杂系统,适合需要语言驱动、高鲁棒性控制的研究者。
现代化工过程日益复杂,叠加人力短缺和复杂故障场景,亟需融合符号推理与自适应控制的新一代自动化范式。本文提出一种统一的智能体框架,利用大语言模型(LLMs)在同一架构中完成离散故障恢复规划与连续过程控制。采用有限状态机(FSMs)作为可解释的操作边界:由大模型驱动的规划智能体通过FSM生成恢复序列,仿真智能体执行并验证每一步转移,验证-重提示循环迭代优化无效方案。在案例1中,针对180个不同规模的随机FSM(4–25个状态,4–300条转移),GPT-4o与GPT-4o-mini在五次重提示内实现100%有效路径成功率,性能优于开源大模型,兼具准确率与低延迟。在案例2中,该框架在实验室TCLab平台及其数字孪生系统上调节双加热器输入,维持目标平均温度,面对持续非对称扰动时,表现接近经典PID控制;消融实验表明提示循环对处理非线性动态至关重要。分析了指令遵循偏差与粗略微分方程近似等关键失败模式。结果表明,通过结构化反馈与模块化智能体,大模型可统一高层符号规划与底层连续控制,为化工工程中具备韧性的语言驱动自动化铺平道路。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The increasing complexity of modern chemical processes, coupled with workforce shortages and intricate fault scenarios, demands novel automation paradigms that blend symbolic reasoning with adaptive control. In this work, we introduce a unified agentic framework that leverages large language models (LLMs) for both discrete fault-recovery planning and continuous process control within a single architecture. We adopt Finite State Machines (FSMs) as interpretable operating envelopes: an LLM-driven planning agent proposes recovery sequences through the FSM, a Simulation Agent executes and checks each transition, and a Validator-Reprompting loop iteratively refines invalid plans. In Case Study 1, across 180 randomly generated FSMs of varying sizes (4-25 states, 4-300 transitions), GPT-4o and GPT-4o-mini achieve 100% valid-path success within five reprompts-outperforming open-source LLMs in both accuracy and latency. In Case Study 2, the same framework modulates dual-heater inputs on a laboratory TCLab platform (and its digital twin) to maintain a target average temperature under persistent asymmetric disturbances. Compared to classical PID control, our LLM-based controller attains similar performance, while ablation of the prompting loop reveals its critical role in handling nonlinear dynamics. We analyze key failure modes-such as instruction following lapses and coarse ODE approximations. Our results demonstrate that, with structured feedback and modular agents, LLMs can unify high-level symbolic planningand low-level continuous control, paving the way towards resilient, language-driven automation in chemical engineering.
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